Artist Interviews

SFMOMA is committed to partnering with the most forward-thinking artists of our time and bringing their visions to life. Here, in their own words, many of these artists share their creative process and their stories.

Making a Mural with Liz Hernández

Marlon Mullen: The language of color

Richard Mayhew: "What color is love?"

Twin Walls Mural Company: Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams

Ruth Asawa on her forms and materials

Sahar Khoury on creative repair

Dawoud Bey on visualizing history

Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies

Tucker Nichols: Flowers For Sick People

Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle on intuition

Nicole Miller: To the Stars

JR on The Chronicles of San Francisco

Nam June Paik: Electronic Superhighway

Cauleen Smith imagines a Black, feminist utopia

Suzanne Lacy: Women fight back

Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here

Rodney McMillian on home and history

The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism

Vija Celmins: Saying the unsayable

Charles Gaines: Sublime Systems

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